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Goals
My grand dream to prove the Riemann Hypothesis never came to fruition so I had to downgrade this lofty goal to a more attainable one: to inhale the beauty of the arts, music, nature, literature and the sciences. What can go wrong listening to tunes and looking at pretty pictures? But, at some point, I could no longer feign achieving this humble goal either, even though it was deliberately high in vagueness and low in measurability, because the reality was that I was spending most of my time ridding my yard of dandelions, and I wasn’t successful there either. Alas! I now find solace in being the owner of a barren piece of ground rife with grubs and invasive weeds.
Claim to Fame
I have seen these people in person, albeit from afar: Nelson Mandela, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, Fidel Castro, Marc Garneau and Chris Hadfield. I have conversed with Stephen Harper.
I have been to the concerts of: E.L.O., Styx, Alannah Myles, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Stevie Nix, the Spoons, April Wine and Tommy Hunter.
Education
I obtained a Diplôme d’Études Secondaires Supérieur at École Secondaire La Citadelle in Cornwall, Ontario. I was an Ontario scholar. I obtained a bursary for mathematics and for bilingualism. I obtained an Honors Bachelor of Arts at the University of Ottawa. I specialized in mathematics. I had cum laude standing. I obtained a Bachelor of Education at the University of Ottawa. I started studies in computers at McGill University.
Career
I have used the following outdated software languages: COBOL, Assembler, Pascal, C, FORTRAN, dBase III+, Clipper, Ada, Modula, SAS, PL/1, LISP, Prolog, Powerhouse, Powerbuilder and Visual Basic. I never had the chance to learn APL and Algol. I am very proud of the applications and systems that I have created. I never really got deep into the modern programming languages of C sharp and Java.
I work for the federal government of Canada in Ottawa. I received the QE II Golden Jubilee medal.
I have worked in several government departments. One of these was the Correctional Service, where I had the opportunity to visit penitentiaries. I once struck up a conversation with an inmate who, unbeknownst to me at the time, was a serial killer.